Microsoft and Amazon Ring should stop working with police, say the ACLU and EFF. They’re hopeful of action after tech companies paused the sale of facial recognition technology to law enforcement following protests after the death of black American George Floyd.
... [+]After global protests about police violence against the black community, tech companies have stopped supporting cops with technology. Already, Amazon is to stop selling its Rekognition tech to law enforcement and IBM said it too was nixing its surveillance business given the tools have been proven to have a bias against non-white people.
Now it’s Microsoft’s turn, according to two of the biggest human and digital rights bodies in America. Though the tech giant has been vocal on its support for the black community, it hasn’t yet changed how or what it sells to police agencies. “The world Microsoft seems to want is one where police have an invisible but inescapable surveillance presence in our communities,”Matt Cagle, technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU. “Where an infrastructure exists to scan your face and identify you as you walk down the street, go to a protest, attend a place of worship, and participate in public life.
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